2026 Horror Watchlist
- Jan 4
- 4 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
What. Fresh. Hell is coming to screens in 2026? Here is my horror watchlist to keep track of movies and series. Dates are subject to change and often do.
Movies I've seen marked are marked in orange. My full movie reviews are available on Letterboxd.
š„ Highly Anticipated šš½ Loved It šš½ Liked ItĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āš½Just OkĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā šš½ Not For MeĀ Ā Ā Ā š© Seriously Bad
JANUARY
2 - We Bury the Dead
9 - Primate
9 - Greenland 2: Migration
16 - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple š„
16 - Night Patrol
23 - Return to Silent Hill
23 - Mother of Flies (Shudder) šš½
30 - Send Help šš½
30 - Iron Lung š„
FEBRUARY
6 - Dracula (Dir. Luc Besson)
6 - Whistle š„
6 - The Strangers; Chapter 3
6 - The Arborist (Dark Sky Films)
8 - The Burbs (Series, Peacock) šš½
11 - Gale: Yellow Brick Road
13 - Cold Storage
13 - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
17 - Ghost Train (South Korean Anthology)
20 - Psycho Killer
20 - This is Not a Test
20 - The Dreadful (period piece)
23 - No Me Sigas (Hulu) š©
27 - Scream 7
27 - Crazy Old Lady (Shudder)
27 - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 (Series, Apple TV)
MARCH
6 - The Bride! (Dir. Maggie Gyllenhal) šš½
6 - Dolly (Shudder)
13 - Undertone šš½
13 - Bodycam (Shudder)
20 - Project Hail Mary
20 ā 1000 Women in Horror (Documentary, Shudder)
20 - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come šš½
26 - Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Netflix)
27 - Alpha (Dir. Julia Ducournau)
27 - They Will Kill You š„
27 - The Mortuary Assistant (Shudder) š©
27 - Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (Hulu)
27 - Forbidden Fruits š„
APRIL
2 ā Touch Me
3 - The Third Parent
10 - Exit 8 š„
10 - Faces of Death
10 - Thrash (Netflix)
17 - Marama (period horror)
17 - Lee Cronin's The Mummy š„š„š„
24 - Over Your Dead Body
MAY
1 - The Devil Wear Prada 2
1 - Hokum š„š„š„
7 - The Terror S3: Devil In Silver (Series, Shudder)
8 - Mortal Kombat II
15 - Obsession š„
22 - Passenger (Dir. Andre Ovredal) š„
29 - Backrooms š„š„š„
JUNE
5 - Masters of the Universe
5 - Scary Movie 6
12 - Disclosure Day
19 - Leviticus (queer Australian horror) š„
JULY
3 - Shiver
24 - Evil Dead Burn š„š„š„
AUGUST
14 - The End of Oak Street š„
21 - Thread: An Insidious Tale
21 - Insidious: The Bleeding World
SEPTEMBER
11 - Clayface
18 - Resident Evil
25 - Victorian Psycho
OCTOBER
1 - Terrifier 4
9 - Other Mommyš„š„š„
23 - Wildwood (Laika, stop motion fantasy)
NOVEMBER
1 - Unholy Night
6 - Godzilla Minus Zero
13 - Return of the Living Dead
13 - Ebenezer (Dir. Ti West Christmas Carol)
13 - The Great Beyond (Dir. J.J. Abrams)
DECEMBER
4 - Violent Night 2
25 - Werwulf (dir. Robert Eggers) š„š„š„
UPCOMING MOVIES (DATE TBA)
Altar (A24, starring Kyle MacLachlan)
Beacon
Boutique (Paul Giamatti, XYZ Films)
Bowels of Hell (killer toilets!!!)
Buddy
Bury the Devil (single shot exorcism movie)
The Call of Cthulhu (dir. James Wan)
Coherence 2
The Conjuring: First Communion (Sep. 10, 2027)
Corporate Retreat
A Corpse in Kensington 2026
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Dir. James Wan)
Dead by Daylight
Don't Go In That House, Bitch! (Eli Roth producing)
Dooba Dooba
Entity Within (Remake of The Entity, starring Heather Graham)
Evil Dead Wrath (Dir. Francis Galluppi, 2027)
The Exorcist (Dir. Mike Flanagan; March 12, 2027)
The Ghost (An Taibhse)
Ghost Eaters
Ghost in the Cell (Indonesian horror comedy)
Godzilla X Kong: Supernova
Gremlins 3 (2027)
The Haunting in Wicker Park (formerly True Haunting)
Horrorstor (based on Grandy Hendrix book)
Imposters
In a Violent Nature 2
It Ends
The Last Train to New York (Netflix remake of Train to Busan) 2026?
Little Slice of Hell (Dir. David F. Sandberg)
Magic (remake, Sam Raimi producing)
The Masque of the Red Death (A24 reimagining)
Medicina Para Fantasmas
The Mist (Dir. Mike Flanagan)
Omnicron
Onslaught
Orphans
Pacifico
Paranormal Activity (May 21, 2027)
Pendulum (produced by Darren Aronofsky)
Perdita
Possession (remake!)
Practical Magic 2
A Quiet Place, Part III
The Remedy
Riddick: Furya
Saccharine (Shudder)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2
Sender
Smile 3
The Soul Eater (Dir. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo)
SOULM8TE - 2026
Talk 2 Me (Sequel) - 2027
Thanksgiving 2 - 2027
They Follow - 2026
Tinsman Rd.
Untitled Jordan Peele Movie - 2028
Visitation
The Weekend (Nigerian horror)
What Happens At Night (Dir. Martin Scorcese)
Witches (UK documentary)
The Young People (Dir. Osgood Perkins)
UPCOMING SERIES (DATE TBA)
American Horror Story, Season 13 (FX)
Carrie (Dir. Mike Flanagan)
The Conjuring (prequel series, HBO)
Crystal Lake (Series, Peacock)
Hostel (starring Paul Giamatti)
Lobo (Series, Netflix)
Poltergeist
Summer of 1985 (Swedish, Series)
True Detective (Dir. Issa Lopez)
The Vampire Lestat (Series, AMC+)
Wednesday, S3
Updated 3-29-2026